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The biggest problem with this is that it eliminates OS-specific facilities, such as the clipboard, OS-style text selection, right click menus, window styling, etc. Yes, these features could be reimplemented, but they are very hard to get right, and near impossible if you are trying to match OS behavior on many platforms.

This suggestion is fundamentally no different than exposing a <canvas> element to a page, and saying "OK, implement your own rendering engine and draw whatever you want in this box." Let's say you wanted to implement a modern browser engine in the canvas, like WebKit. Well, you'd need a huge number of OS specific hooks to get things like the ones I listed above. Do you expose those via an OS API? Well, you just opened a huge number of vectors for an attack. Do you replicate these hooks in your own code? Well, you just created a crappy UX since you're never going to match the OS behavior 100%.
It's funny. I simply Googled for 'conway's game of life' after reading all the posts here and was pleasantly surprised to find this nice easter egg. I submitted it, and now it has been #1 for the past couple of hours :)
Yeah, add one pixel in the wrong place and the thing would implode.
Sure, you can use their rhetoric if it makes you feel good. It doesn't change the fact that those mainstream feminists who call people whose beliefs align with the dictionary definition of feminism "anti-feminists" are the ones who drove women away from identifying themselves as feminists.
Some previous discussions of various aspects of this project:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=KillMath

(This list of HN Search results does not appear to be exhaustive. Sure enough, a Google site-restricted search

https://www.google.com/search?q=KillMath+site%3Anews.ycombin...

turns up more links, as often happens when I look for old posts on Hacker News.)

Who here has used KillMath to learn new mathematics?
Not exactly the same game, but Osu! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K31BYeLNJ0 for a gameplay example) is a fangame of Ouendan AKA Elite Beat Agents in North America.

The game was originally touch (or stylus) based, but the best scores are all done through mouse to aim & keyboard to press. This game involves swiping, pointing, spinning, and more accurate following of drawn cursors on screen. I think to line up your draw, and make an accurate motion, the mouse will still win.

Edit: Correction: Stylus is also just as popular, but the keyboard is still used.
Can this service handle more complex structures like converting a table in Textile or Markdown into a Table in docx? Can it handle word styling?

I'm building software where the output must be in docx, wondering how far I can go in not having to deal with word automation to get the output I want into a Word Doc.
As part of my DYI, I would drop the guilt of not being able to go the traditional route. Being mindful, staying in here-now, is not easy either and it may not work for you well, but it is something one can try quiet easily at any given moment. When you walk, observe. When you eat, observe and only eat. Taste the food and only eat. So on and so forth. I believe this is the best DIY of meditation, though not everyone agrees that being mindfulness is meditation, but I tend to think that it IS meditation and not necessarily mindfulness, because the goal of being in here-now is to eliminate the distraction of past/future and not really to concentrate. However, on the other hand, the typical meditation techniques (of mantra or other types) would want you to concentrate on something.
We don't know, which is why such analogies don't provide real insight.
I'm sorry, but the suggestion is plain retarded. The author probably is too young and/or clueless to understand what kind of hell Internet was 15 years ago.

If he wants to experience how it feels, he should just start build Flash based websites.
Server's overloaded already; and something about the stylesheet makes the font appear weirdly garbled on FireFox ESR 10.
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so would a second level of recursion be possible with the hashlife algorithm?
I have actually used bubble sort once.

I had a small data set, and, more importantly, I needed a customer who might be a less-than-saavy programmer (VBA) to understand what was going on.

Bubble sort is, if nothing else, simple to understand.
Yes, I was trying to make a joke about how people on here have attempted to justify off-topic articles in a rather roundabout manner when it suits them, as well as how people are often so eager to suck the dicks of the "rockstars" in the industry.

Unfortunately, it seems to have gone over most people's heads.
You might need to be careful that you don't end up liable for any copyright infringement. I would speak to a lawyer before pulling content from a URL and transferring it to an unrelated destination.

Maybe T&C can protect you in this scenario but maybe not.
Any plan to make this available to others someway somehow? I've been working on a writing project that would be ideally captured in a wiki, and I've been putting off the idea of writing my own software or deeply customizing other software.
But this wouldn't even have, like, font rendering. Input methods. The amount of stuff every single site would have to implement just to show something on the screen is staggering, unless the API in question is no longer small and simple and provably safe.
>Yes, a lot of people like really big screens but Apple has never been one to cater to the minority.

What?? Their entire existence has been to cater to the minority.
Apparently saying "I wish Apple had not been so arrogant" now constitutes 'trashing'.
I have a Galaxy Nexus. It is not too wide to operate with just one hand for me.
The next step in the sequence is to get rid of interactivity. We have then reached television.
It can definitely handle word styling if you provide it with a reference docx to copy the styles from. I haven't tried tables. If you'd like, feel free to create a dev account and give it a spin.
Anyone who made it to the "people on the internet are dicks" and wondered if that HN post is real and was too lazy to type: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583
Conway's Game of Life with Minecraft Redstone
In New York, there's WalkAboutNYC. They organize events frequently enough. http://walkaboutnyc.com/
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There is a legal definition: a newly formed business that has not begun its intended normal business activities. Legally, and in the tax code, a "startup" has various advantages that established businesses do not (i.e., for example, in some states a startup does not pay income taxes for its first year).

If you want to add more to the definition...that is a philosophical battle that will never be resolved decisely for any specific extended definition.
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API is cool and dandy, but I think project should go in other direction. Lucene focus should be REAL support for languages, lack of proper dictionaries, lame stemmers makes it hard to use.

For me Lucene was always an NoSQL database and the rest of real search stuff I had to implement myself. (not to mention Solr mess).

It's fun and cool to work on some Java code architecture, but the real need lies somewhere else.
Just think of the fun you can have with the bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address!
Sorry I missed the sarcasm. Sometimes it's really hard to tell here and in the valley in general.
> Meditation is the focused practice of resisting distraction.

So is actually practicing resisting distraction in vivo, except that it's directly applicable. You're argument is exactly the “of course it does!” argument that your parent was referring to.

Without studies, we don't actually know whether the skills in resisting distraction during meditation actually transfer to other situations.

To quote your parent:

One cannot just say things over and over to make them true.
I think you are on to something here, but there is a difference between doing something relaxing and "meditating". I'm most relaxed while sitting on the pot and I get my best insights while taking a shower, but during neither of those am I meditating (in the zen sense).

A Zen Grandmaster can probably meditate while rollerblading through NYC and simultaneously debugging a kernel driver. For beginners, it helps to sit relatively still with eyes closed (or eyes focused on eg a candle, tree, waterfall etc. but not darting about), to chant or use beads to count breaths, etc.
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Indeed. Definitely on the list. (And thanks!).
Isn't this what Java was about? You were supposed to write code that would run on any platform, and that code would download data from the web and display in any way it wanted. The fact that it didn't work just shows that it is much easier to create UIs that use a common set of standards, instead of creating your own ad-hoc UI for every new web site.
I've found myself caring less and less what woz thinks lately. He is a significant historical figure in tech and wrt apple, but these days not very relevant.
The comment makes no mention of the word "smart", just that Google's interview process is long and hard.
Not that one. :) Just took a random URL and truncated a few numbers. Didn't want to tie it to anything in particular.
I think this whole thing is purely an exercise in identifying obstacles. Identifying obstacles is a necessary first step in the process of determining whether or not you can overcome them.

The second step would be analysis. It's pointless to identify obstacles just so you can assume that you'll overcome them all. Not all obstacles are created equal. You need to take the time to look at the more major ones in detail, so you can create a strategy, and then assess that strategy. The end result is more accurate assumptions.

Of course your best-laid plans may go to waste, and your best-made predictions may prove inaccurate. But to quote Dwight Eisenhower: "Plans are worthless. Planning is essential."
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One reason I can see that kept apple from coming up with wider screen is backwards compatibility. Most iOS apps are using absolute coordinates, the taller screen is already gave a lot of old apps black gaps on the top and bottom. Wider screen will just make rewriting the apps even more work to support ios6
Nah, bubble sort is easier:

for(i=0 to n):
for(j=0 to n-1):
if(a[j] > a[j+1]) swap(a[j],a[j+1])

-or-

for(i=0 to n*n):
j = i%(n-1)
if(a[j] > a[j+1]) swap(a[j],a[j+1])

;-)
As a small counterpoint, when I interviewed at Google, one of the interviewers asked me how I might design an app to play the Game of Life, starting with simple cases and scaling up to boards with millions and millions of cells (so it was secretly about designing a distributed computation system, I think).
Aw, I know the benefits. I hoped this would help me find a way to fit it in.
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Personally I'd love to get a hold of http://202.254.186.190/ for linking.
Back in the day, this was the original promise of Java. Content would be rendered inside of applets. ISTR a startup called Texture that tried to do this. They provided pixel-level design tools, the result would compile to a .java file
True, but at $5 (that's what it is now right?) you also get more people that will give it a try (before the wedding) to see if it works well for them. They may think $5 lost if it turns out to be shitty is just "too bad", but $25 may be a tad bigger hurdle for just giving something a quick tryout.
Regardless of spam protection, I like the idea of a 'deep breath and count to ten' being forced on a commenter before they can submit and I'd love to know what an impact that might have on comment quality somewhere like youtube.
Yes! How I longed for the days where scraping would be impossible, locking us out of many innovative interfaces and mashups (or even just archiving pages, like e.g. Pinboard does). Where Reddit's Enhancement Suite or the many Hacker News bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts would be impossible. Where I can't just copy a piece of HTML to my clipboard, just dumb images.
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That makes it trickier, but there's a slightly tricky asynchronous connection function I wrote to download the packs. I'm hoping that's not it interfering with something you have installed via Cydia/Mobile Substrate. Do you know what you have installed perchance?
My favorite thing to do with metacells is to destroy a small part of one of them and watch the chaos. Digital cancer.
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Why not use that headless chrome project for spamming (momentarily forgot the name)? That should foil the JavaScript evasion methods.

Downside is of course having to download the sites you want to spam, whereas apparently traditionally spammers just send post requests.
The point of our current ecosystem is that you can write a moderately portable app, (HTML, CSS, JS) and it is able to run on an x86 OSX browser, or an ARM-based Android phone etc

Either you going to write native machine code, in which case you lose portability, or you going to be writing intermediary byte code. That approach has been done before and failed as a ubiquitous open web standard eg the JVM and the .net CLR.

Today's situation is messy, but it works. Every once in a while there is a crazy idea that is actually pretty decent,...'downloading /browser.exe' is not one of them.
I work with DBS.

It's primarily used for motor disorders like Parkinson's disease and dystonia. It works fantastically well. Patients move better and take less meds.

It's not some fancy brain programming - you can modify the signal somewhat, but the current tech is essentially a hot-rigged Medtronic heart pacemaker that is wired to the brain instead. You set it at around 0.5 - 3.5 V (I think depression they often crank it up to 5-6 V, for no better reason than just because...), around 60-120 microsecond pulse duration, and between 60-180 Hz. So no, not in-depth brain programming yet.

For depression- it's much harder to know because the scales are much more subjective. For PD, dystonia - easy - measure if they are moving or not. For depression, you need a complex scale that tries to quantify "how do you feel"? Plus, it's open label and non blinded, so yes, they are going to say, "I feel better" after they've underwent surgery like that.

For those of you who are interested in DBS for depression, pubmed the papers by Helen Mayberg of Emory and Andres Lozano of the University of Toronto. It's promising, but still far from ready for prime time - studies are open label and too preliminary.

Ironic that the major quotes are from the division head of Medtronic, who, although he's a really smart and a really nice guy, is an executive of the company that stand to receive financial gain. Not that they shouldn't quote him, but they should have contacted the researchers who did the studies first.

Other issues: I think transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS/rTMS is much more widely used that tDCS, on the account of tDCS limits how much energy you can zap without causing pain. There is one device that is approved for TMS in depression- the problem is that the effects don't last too much longer after you shut the machine off. (DBS stays on 24/7). What's scandalous about that device is, there's some sort of disposable widget that costs >$100 a pop and is one use only. Nice cash flow for the devive manufacturer built into the design...
did you try, or do you know if merely adding nofollow was enough to have an impact? I've always assumed comment spam links were more about growing/stealing page rank than actually being clicked by anyone.
If I'm too busy to medidate, why will I have time to read this article (presumably on meditation)?
> The hypothesis is as simple as "Telling jokes is a good way to become funny"

Right. So practicing meditation is a good way to become better at meditation. There's no guarantee that that skill transfers over to very different situations.

I'm not saying your intuition is wrong, however, I actually suspect it's right. But to claim that you can definitively say that it's right is not scientific.
Strange, I'm not seeing it on Chrome for Mac. http://i.imgur.com/oGSqo.png
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I can see this fixing some problems I've noticed with browser-based apps in the enterprise.

It could also be the next IE6, lying in wait for an unwary developer.
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I'm entertaining the assumption. I don't think engineers are any weirder than say accountants.
You cannot stop your thoughts, it's like trying to capture the wind by opening your jacket. The point of meditation that most miss is that it is an experiment rather than a quiet place you're trying to reach. You discover what your emotions are, what you think about, etc. There is no goal other than observation of your mind and to consistently bring your attention back to your breath. The reason you sit and don't move is only to start at the most basic thing you can do, but the point is not the sitting and becoming still, it is to learn how to carry your awareness with you where ever you go and no matter what you do. When you can do this, things change.

To get started I recommend finding a group and going a few times at first to understand good posture and breathing techniques. There is no right way to meditate so which group you join probably doesn't matter. I personally like the methods of Zen or Shambhala.

I have actually managed to meditate for 20-30 minutes first thing every morning for the last 26 days in a row, although over the years I've been practicing on and off. The trick I've found to do it everyday for nearly a month now has been to use some findings in behavioral economics.

The idea is this: come up with a challenge for a month and a small but immediate punishment for yourself if you don't meet it. For example, donating $50 to an organization you hate if you don't meditate when you knew you should've (obviously any real crises are exempt from any skipping). It is amazing how well this works. Suddenly I have 20 minutes at home to just sit down so the Westboro Church doesn't get any of my money.

But to more correctly answer your question, just keeping a routine is enough. We cannot all become monks, but if you can ever get to a place where 20-40 minutes is a daily routine, it will change your life. Feel free to message me if you have any specific questions on books to start with, etc.
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>used to be a tour thing

There has been a YC distributed open house at least each of the past couple of years. Haven't heard if there will be one this year or not.
I like it! Simple and elegant. Throw in a little Markdown syntax for bolding, italics, image embeds, etc., and I think you'd be well on your way to a cool thing.

Like others, I wouldn't mind forking/contributing if you ever decided to make it open source, but I respect it all the same if you don't want to go that route. I would actually love to use this as a small part of an ongoing project where we're thinking of including a small wiki functionality (although it would need to be either open source or something that was able to run on our servers for that, not remotely hosted...)
Selection sort is simpler than Insertion sort.
The Center for Applied Rationality's in-practice corporate culture, by virtue of literally every person in the building being an explicit rationalist, has an even more powerful and valuable property - people know they won't be punished for changing their minds or admitting they were wrong. Plus you can say "Value of information!" to justify trying-at-least-once something that most people think won't work, since nobody's going to stick to it due to the sunk cost fallacy afterward.

Despite everything I knew in theory about the virtue of being able to change one's mind, including having written a major blog post Sequence about it, my ability to do so in practice took a substantial leap after the Center for Applied Rationality came together, I spent a lot of time coworking with some of the people, and my monkey brain got to see that other people actually were implementing that thing I'd written about where people were allowed to change their minds, and they were getting high-fives and not being punished for it.
This is called "sandboxing" and contrary to being a "radical departure from the original Internet", the Java VM has been doing this in the applet engine since the mid-90's. It's a complicated platform to work with, though some applications do rely upon it, and it's the source of the most high profile security holes found in the Java platform overall (https://www.google.com/search?q=java+sandbox+vulnerabilities).
Computer programming is well paying white collar work. It's detail oriented and not social, but neither are accounting and law and those professions have plenty of women.
On what to do physically, my recommendation is to use mediation beads (aka mala beads). 6-count breathing (6 on each inhale and exhale) and move one bead each breath. With the standard 108-beads, you start at the mala and it takes about 20 minutes to reach the end (you feel your fingers reach the mala again).

For the mental aspect, a good starting point is the audio session Alan Watts Teaches Mediation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYENNBA0cA
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I disagree about the gravity, but I don't feel I can make that argument satisfactorily with the time I have now. But even aside from that, the relationship between my vote for a presidential candidate and the eventual appointee is very indirect--in my case, the presidents I have voted for have always chosen vastly worse Justices than the candidates I voted against. I think you'd have to somehow agree fervently with one of the major party's ideals, but also take the broadest reading, in order to really be satisfied with their appointments. I personally think there's a lot of value in combining a progressive legislature with a conservative judicial branch.
You were replying to an article involving an empirical study.
Is this similar to Hoppr???
Solr _is_ designed to be a lot more than Lucene.

You can always continue to use Lucene if you want to write the bulk of the search engine functionality yourself, and just need an indexing+search library.
Note that when you write an IP address in the form a.b.c, the c is actually allowed to be 16 bits. E.g., 192.168.2345, which is equivalent to 192.168.9.41.

Note also that telephone numbers in the US can be written in the form a.b.c, where a and b are 3 digits and c is four digits.

It would be really cool to get a matching telephone number and IP address, so you could print on your business card something like "Telephone and IP: 206.253.2317".
Relying on a company with enough slack to have senior engineers who can dedicate 6 months to a whim project and spare people to recruit in, seems not ideal.

And the IT world is rife with unfinished, unsuccessful projects and people building themselves into corners. Your anecdote worked for your employer, but there are plenty of stories about "just started coding" leading to "big tangle of unmaintainable insecure slow messy code full o' bugs".